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Coregonus kiyi orientalis Koelz, 1929:445

Lake Ontario kiyi

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Leucichthys kiyi orientalis Koelz, 1929:445

 

Conservation Status

Extinct (Burkhead, 2012)

Last record: 19 September 1964

 

Estimated date of extinction: 1967 (Burkhead, 2012)

 

Distribution

Lake Ontario

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

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References

Original scientific description:

Koelz, W. (1929). Coregonid fishes of the Great Lakes. Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish 43: 297-643.

 

Other references:

Burkhead, Noel M. (2012). Extinction Rates in North American Freshwater Fishes, 1900–2010. BioScience 62(9): 798-808.

COSEWIC. (2005). COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Lake Ontario kiyi Coregonus kiyi orientalis and Upper Great Lakes kiyi Coregonus kiyi kiyi in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa, ON. vi + 17 pp.

Jelks, Howard L., Walsh, Stephen J., Burkhead, Noel M., Contreras-Balderas, Salvador, Díaz-Pardo, Edmundo, Hendrickson, Dean A., Lyons, J., Mandrak, Nicholas E., McCormick, Frank, Nelson, Joseph F., Platania, Steven P., Porter, Brady A., Renaud, Claude B., Schmitter-Soto, Juan Jacabo, Taylor, Eric B. and Warren, Melvin L. Jr. (2008). Conservation status of imperiled North American freshwater and diadromous fishes. Fisheries 33(8): 372-407.

Miller, R. R., Williams, J. D. and Williams, J. E. (1989). Extinctions of North American fishes during the past century. Fisheries 14(6): 22-38.

 

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